Janet Varney Quotes

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

Janet Varney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1976

Topics

LoveFeelYouFallCreateLucky

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Mohsin Hamid

DanceMeWritingPuzzleLikeNovel

When I did 'The Passion,' nobody believed in the movie. Everybody was telling me, 'You shouldn't do this movie... But I wanted to play Mary Magdalene. I thought that I could do something strong and deep with this character.

Monica Bellucci

PassionCharacterMeDeepThought

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Joyce Maynard

BeautifulArtShortHandsomeFlaws

There should be a whole book written about that one word: country. What does that mean, country? It's such a huge umbrella. I would hope that what makes it country is that it all starts with a song. The story being told in three and a half minutes that is not being told on another station.

Dierks Bentley

HopeSongBookStoryCountryThree

Someone from the family is always with me in England, and for me, that's the perfect life.

David Silva

LifeFamilyMeSomeonePerfect

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Chris Cleave

RelationshipThinkTragedyExplore

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

Christian Slater

SchoolRegretHigh SchoolBackHigh

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Bobby Riggs

WomenMeTennisChecksWondersOwe

I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.

Arca

RulesContradictionsLikeExceptions

Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for black life transcends through the fabric of our society.

Alicia Garza

LifeSocietyBlackDisrespectMatter

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen

MarriageHopeDeath

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

Philip Treacy

MomentI AmHatBelieveWedding

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